May 19, 2014
The week has been interesting it has been fun and hard and trying and fast and slow and yeah that. We have been trying to keep up the morale here, because our baptismal date Abby, dropped us and our only other progressing investigator dropped us, so its back to basic's Finding! Yay we couldn't be more happy. haha No, we like finding it is just a tiring thing. However we did get an awesome referral for a family this week from another set of missionaries, and we hope to start teaching them soon. We have met the father and seen the daughter, but it is going to be awesome so we really hope that they progress. We also are going to focus a lot on less active work. We really hope to help some of the part- members too. All of the members here think President is really strict because we have areas and we have to stay in our areas for dinner and stuff like that but they are just used to very lenient mission presidents and not so obedient missionaries from times past. Yes it was very, very, hot last week but this week is supposed to be cooler. Elder Peterson and I are staying together for another transfer so we will see how this goes. I think it will be fun. One spiritual thing that happened this week, hmmmm, it has just been finding this week and not too much happened. The referral was pretty great. Elder Peterson hasn't been feeling good lately. So yeah, not too much has happened. We just keep trying, it has been a hard week.
Love,
Elder Hyde
Hello Mom
It sounds like it has been a busy week. Yeah, Dad said your extension wasn’t accepted. I guess it is your turn to be in the States Well, 10 years straight of overseas would be hard for most people. Wow, 10 years 2005- 2015 can you believe that? Crazy, it has been 10 years almost since China; also can you believe that it is half way through 2014?
We picked up a new investigator this week. She and a less active are dating and they just had a kid a few months back. They are pretty much married, they now just need to do the ceremony, hopefully it will happen soon. They came to church and had a great time, can't wait for our lesson on Thursday. We also met a Less active’s non- member daughter, Jenna Irvin, she isn't an investigator yet .. yet. But she has started going to mutual without us even ever speaking to her, we have just talked to her mom. We just had a member let us know she went to mutual and then told us she was coming to church. So yeah, I like that kind of missionary work. Where I didn't do anything really other than stop by and talk to the mom every so often and then have this happens. It’s fun, it should happen more often haha.
We get to go in 20 or so days as a mission to the temple... it will be awesome. I bore my testimony yesterday, and then everyone asked if I was leaving or something. I said “no, I just bore my testimony, why does everyone keep asking me that?!” But it was nice, I had a few different people ask me that and then say good, you shouldn't leave for a while. We like having you around, so that was nice. Wards have always enjoyed me being in them. They say it is because I am different than the other missionaries, I am just myself. And just act as if I am part of the ward. So then they feel like I care more about the work in the ward. So yeah, that is cool. That is what progression is, just being better today than yesterday and better tomorrow than today.
I read Alma13:28 recently “But that ye would humble yourselves before the Lord, and call on his holy name, and watch and pray continually, that ye may not be tempted above that which ye can bear, and thus be led by the Holy Spirit, becoming humble, meek, submissive, patient, full of love and all long-suffering;” And I thought that it is true that the world today has the “act now deal with it later” mentality and it will drive them into the ground. It amazes me every time I read from the Book of Mormon how much it was written for our day.
Love you Mommy
Elder Hyde
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